Eric's beginnings with Smokingpipes.com started in 2009 with data entry and quality control, where his appreciation for pipes grew and eventually merged with his creative writing talent. He has since written and edited vast tracts of content for both our website and newsletters, and helped show our younger copywriters the ropes when they've joined us. Eric is another member of our New Jersey faction (he "attended the same high school Lee Van Cleef dropped out of"), and is a fan of Latakia, Semois, strong cigars, and silence. In his own words, "Animals usually adore me, women with any sense of humor giggle school-girlishly at me, and men I grew up with still want to know what I could have possibly been thinking."

Let us say for the sake of conversation that you are a person who has achieved great success and security as an artist, your name famous to a truly vast population. What would you do next? ... Read More

Sometime back we asked a whole bunch of prominent American artisans to come up with pipes (one from each, that is) for our third annual American Pipemaking Exposition, a showcase of sorts highlighting interesting themes and happenings within the American pipemaking movement. ... Read More

Amber: What is it, why was it used for pipe stems, and why isn't it still used for pipe stems? These questions come up because recently we had a special batch of pipes from Peterson, all bearing, yes, actual amber stems. ... Read More

Drucquer & Sons is a name with a long, long history, stretching back to 1841. That isn't what concerns us though. Don't get me wrong, it's nice and all that D&S was around for so long, but our main concern comes later... much later. ... Read More

In the beginning there was the Dunhill Shell. At least, that's how histories of the sandblasted briar usually go; whether or not Dunhill was in fact the first to come up with a sandblast-finished pipe, I leave to better historians and whatever original source materials they may find. ... Read More

For this Mystery Review, the tobacco was chosen through a rigorous process: whatever tobacco was the subject of the most recent customer review on our website, at the time. The process was, you see, rigorously quick. And in that same spirit, let's get on with it. ... Read More

Ten years and some change ago, Luca di Piazza was working on a project that involved pipe design for a third party, when there came along into his head a Pot that just stuck with him. The shape was never realized for that project, but it didn't wind up on the cutting room floor, either. ... Read More

In the first part of the interview we discussed some of Alex Florov's background and explored some of the similarities between his works and that of Maigurs Knets. This continuation will discuss Alex's thoughts on other modern pipe makers and hint at his plans for the future. ... Read More

Alex Florov has spoken to us before about influences and other master-pipemakers whose work he admires, but there's another pipemaker relevant to discussions of Alex Florov pipes. Specifically, an artisan who is relevant because the two share some history as artisans. ... Read More

When Sykes visited the Radices with Luca di Piazza in 2010, the first things Luigi personally showed off to them (after finishing the work he was in the middle of when they arrived) were not the highest-graded pipes at hand, but those Gigi happened to find the most interesting results of his tinkering ... Read More

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